Melissa Boyd’s plea deal comes just three days after she resigned from the bench, following months of turmoil.

Tyre Nichols trial will stay in Memphis for now, a bill would eliminate two Shelby County judges and the Tigers score a top recruit.

The state’s push to remove two judgeships in Memphis faces resistance locally and from some Tennessee legislators who say Shelby County still needs the seats, particularly Division 9 of the Criminal Court.

Fifty-six years to the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son stood on the balcony where his father was fatally wounded in 1968 and talked about the movement King led in the here and now.

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The April 4 deadline to get on the August ballot saw action in races for five seats on the school board. In primaries for Shelby County state legislative seats, four incumbents won reelection at the deadline.

Nine women and two doctors have launched a legal battle alleging current law violates pregnant patients' right to life as guaranteed by the state’s constitution. They want the judicial panel to clarify the circumstances that qualify patients to legally receive an abortion.

With the qualifying deadline passing on Thursday, Arlington Mayor Mike Wissman will win his fourth term as mayor since no candidates emerged to challenge him.

The bill says the video, produced by an anti-abortion group, must be shown as part of a school’s family life curriculum.

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The son of Martin Luther King Jr. returns to Memphis on the anniversary of his father’s assassination for the National Civil Rights Museum’s annual commemoration. 

Juvenile Court Judge Tarik Sugarmon said only about 50%-60% of children in the facility attend classes. He also said the court mandated Feb. 28 parent visitation, which has been suspended for four years, be reinstated.

U.S. District Judge Mark Norris on Thursday, April 4, denied motions by defense counsel for the officers, of which several had been filed.

New juvie has more kids than the sheriff’s office can handle, Ja Morant splits with his agent and the party is over in Southaven. 

“It is critical in the face of such tragedy that we don’t surrender to hopelessness. We’ve got to strengthen our resolve, amplify our voices and expand our reach,” said the executive director of Memphis Child Advocacy Center.

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn was in Memphis Wednesday and talked with The Daily Memphian about crime, a proposal she is sponsoring to strip federal funds from cities with a no-cash bail policy and whether Memphis is a “soft-on-crime” city.

The lab’s namesake, who grew up on a dairy farm in Whitehaven, and went on to be a successful businessman, died last month.

“Basically, every teacher would move up the equivalent of four steps in one year,” Lakeland School System Superintendent Ted Horrell said at a budget work session for the coming fiscal year.

The cases represent 15% of the felonies that have come through the DA’s office this year, Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said during a Wednesday press conference.

A group of organizations allege the youth detention facility’s leadership and staff deny visitation and do not provide sufficient education or time outdoors.

Legislation to let some public school teachers carry handguns gained momentum as the GOP-controlled legislature quashed new attempts to tighten the state’s lax firearm laws following last year’s mass school shooting in Nashville.

Melissa Boyd will plead guilty Friday in her criminal case, her lawyer Arthur Horne told The Daily Memphian Wednesday.

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Young says new police rank may prevent federal oversight, two FedExForum projects move ahead and homeless pups get home training in jail.

Sports authority board approves part of $550 million in planned renovations to FedExForum and provides a look at the upgrades the Memphis Grizzlies are planning.

MPD and its police union disagree over the recent creation of a frontline supervisor role, but Memphis Mayor Paul Young says the second lieutenant rank is needed to avoid another U.S. Department of Justice consent decree. 

Six women in the Shelby County Department of Corrections and three dogs are participating in a program to improve the women’s emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills while giving dogs training to make them more adoptable. 

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1921, the parochial school ICCS shares a campus with the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the mother church of the Diocese of Memphis.